How do you protect an investment? GOLD. It’s easy to buy and easy to sell and has never been worth zero… or so the commercial goes.
Gold is often promoted as a safe investment that keeps pace with inflation… but is it safe? Does it keep pace with inflation?
In 1981 Gold was trading at $600 a troy ounce and dropped all the way down to $300 a troy ounce. Is that a safe investment? Did it keep pace with inflation?
Gold later dropped to $250 a troy ounce and in 2006, 25 years later, Gold hit $559.70 a troy ounce and was promoted as a Bull Market in the Wall Street Journal.
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Over a span of 25 years Gold did not recover to the $600 a troy ounce!
In fact, you could have owned Gold for a span of 25 years and it would have cost you $40.30 a troy ounce ($600 - $559.70 = $40.30 loss) when your money should have doubled and tripled over a span of 25 years.
From $600 a troy ounce in 1981 Gold dropped 60% in value and never recovered to $600 a troy ounce until 2008 when Gold hit $846 a troy ounce.
Gold is a speculative, risky, investment
$100,000 invested in Gold in 1981 would have a value of $142,000 in 2008 when your money should have doubled, tripled and quadrupled over a span of 27 years.
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Here is the Golden reality. Gold is a speculative, risky, investment. When there are more buyers than sellers the price goes up and when there are more sellers than buyers the price goes down. You cannot sleep with Gold, you need to be awake, alert, and ready to pull the trigger and sell at high trading points.
Retirement Annuities that’s where the Gold is
Retirement “Annuity” Gold now that’s what you want in your retirement portfolio.
A Retirement Annuity with an 8% Lifetime Income Benefit Rider (LIBR) will double income value every 9-years. And, will never lose value (excluding the risky variable annuity)
Some Retirement Annuities available today offer a 6% to 12% Premium Bonus credited on day-1 and it compounds and grows 8% per year until the owner elects the retirement income… and then the income is guaranteed for life and any remaining cash at death goes onto the family heirs.
How do you compare $800,000 to $142,000?
Over the 27-year time span 1981 to 2008 Gold values grew from $100,000 to $142,000. Over the same time span a Retirement Annuity with an 8% LIBR would have grown into $800,000.
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